In February 2024, Mr. Michael Parrott, JSOU Faculty, interviewed Nicholas Eftimiades. Mr. Eftimiades has over 30 years of government service, is a veteran of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, State Department, and Defense intelligence agency. He is an author and renowned educator for his work concerning PRC intelligence operations. Nicholas is a current professor at Penn State Harrisburg University and founder of Shinobi Enterprises LLC, a company focused on countering China’s espionage, covert influence, and theft of technology, and trade secrets. Mr. Eftimiades is a globally recognized authority on Chinese Intelligence: Operations and Tactics. He authored books, reports, and numerous articles on China’s commercial and national security espionage methods in his book Chinese Intelligence Operations and in 2020, with Chinese Espionage: Operations and Tactics. In Nicholas’ recent publication by the Research Institute for European and American Studies titled China’s Espionage Recruitment Motivations – Getting Rid of the MICE, he proposes a new methodology for examining China’s intelligence recruitment motivations and tactics – the acronym BEWARE. Which brings us to today’s discussion on the PRC’s espionage methodology.

Opinions are those of the presenters and may not necessarily be the views of U.S. Government, Department of Defense, United States Special Operations Command, the Joint Special Operations University, and the Department of the Army.

Articles/Information Referenced during Interview:

China’s Espionage Recruitment Motivations: Getting Rid of the MICE, by Nicholas Eftimiades, December 2023. https://www.rieas.gr/images/editorial...

Congressional Memo to SECDEF and FBI Director concerning PRC espionage activities directed against U.S. military bases and sensitive locations throughout the U.S. https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/...

The 5 Faces of Chinese Espionage: The World’s First Digital Authoritarian State (Breaking Defense) by Nicholas Eftimiades, October 22, 2020. https://breakingdefense.com/2020/10/t...

China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done (Breaking Defense) by Nicholas Eftimiades, April 19, 2019. https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/c...

Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, 1999. https://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf

Books Referenced:

Chinese Intelligence Operations: Espionage Damage Assessment Branch, U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency 1st Edition, by Nicholas Eftimiades, 1994

Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics, by Nicholas Eftimiades, 2020


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